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Re: Screen reader indications of underlined or strike-through text

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Jun 18, 2014 2:46PM

JAWS does announce STRONG, EM, B, I, DEL, INS, STRIKE in Internet
Explorer on the sample page
http://files.paciellogroup.com/blogmisc/strong.html
In Firefox it does not announce STRONG and BOLD however.
I tested it with JAWS 14 and 15 using Proof Reading (attributes)
scheme. (Some users might prefer this scheme as a default!)
So perhaps this is an indication that browsers too are lacking ... as
Steve suggested?

Thanks,
Sailesh


On 6/18/14, Whitney Quesenbery < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Lucy,
>
> Agree.
>
> I just meant that if you have a document that relies on an unusual command
> or setting, it might be nice to set up a page that explains the settings in
> the popular screen readers. I'm thinking of how the BBC (and other) site
> accessibility includes some general help for useful, but less known
> settings.
>
>
> Whitney
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Yes I agree but the keyboard commands for how to do the same things
>> differ
>> in each screen reader. I was not saying it was good that they are
>> different but can't help tell them by telling them how to do it in one
>> when they are using the other smile.
>>
>> Lucia Greco
>> Web Accessibility Evangelist
>> IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
>> University of California, Berkeley
>> (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
>> http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
>> Follow me on twitter @accessaces
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Whitney
>> Quesenbery
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 4:36 PM
>> To: WebAIM Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Screen reader indications of underlined or
>> strike-through text
>>
>> This is legal document markup? Hideous stuff for anyone to read.
>>
>> Could someone who is more of a Word maven write a script or macro to turn
>> word Underline and Strikeover into <del> and <ins>?
>>
>> I ask because it's my bet that the HTML is straight from a Word document,
>> and if you can't make the transformation accurately repeatable, you won't
>> be able to use it because it will add to the process of vetting the
>> markup.
>>
>>
>> To Lucy: standards, standards, standards. This doesn't sound like
>> something that should be tailored for a specific brand of screen reader.
>> But I'd be tempted to include a "how to" note to tell sr users how to set
>> up their AT instead.
>>
>> Whitney
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Lucy Greco < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>> > Witch screen reader are your students using Each one does it a little
>> > differently
>> >
>> > Lucia Greco
>> > Web Accessibility Evangelist
>> > IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration University of
>> > California, Berkeley
>> > (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
>> > http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
>> > Follow me on twitter @accessaces
>> >
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> > [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Dana
>> > Douglas
>> > Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 12:03 PM
>> > To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> > Subject: [WebAIM] Screen reader indications of underlined or
>> > strike-through text
>> >
>> > Greetings,
>> >
>> > We've come across an interesting issue regarding how screen readers
>> > indicate underlined or strike-through text on a web page. In the
>> > context (legal documentation), this kind of information is vital to
>> > the user so they can tell what text has been removed (strike-through)
>> > and what text has been added (underline). From what we can tell, aside
>> > from hard coding this information into the site, it is our
>> > understanding that you can typically change a setting in your screen
>> > reader to have it indicate "begin underline" and "end underline" at
>> > the beginning and end of a section of underlined (or strike-through)
>> > text. Does anyone know if there are also settings for changing the
>> > pitch or volume to indicate such or would that be too confusing with
>> > pitch changes for upper-case and lower-case letters and words?
>> >
>> > Otherwise, does anyone know of any different ways to provide this type
>> > of indication? Any insight or suggestions are welcome!
>> >
>> > Thank you!
>> >
>> > Dana Douglas
>> >
>> > >> > >> > list messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> > >> > >> > list messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> >
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>> >> >> >>
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